Tag: gay-straight alliance
The school that banned rainbows in response to homophobic harassment says they’re changing
A junior high school’s administration is trying to address racist and homophobic flyers that students were passing out earlier this year.
This past March, students at McCormick Junior High School in Cheyenne, Wyoming, handed out flyers and taped them to hallways. Some of the flyers had anti-LGBTQ messages like a rainbow flag crossed out and “It’s great to be straight. It’s not OK to be gay.”
Others were racist, displaying the Confederate flag and messages like “Black lives matter only because...
Student sues high school for right to form Gay-Straight Alliance
A student at a Buffalo high school has filed a federal lawsuit, with the help of the New York Civil Liberties Union, for the right to form a Gay-Straight Alliance.
The openly gay 18 year-old Byshop Elliott could no long sit idly by, ignoring the reportedly homophobic atmosphere in the school, and said he is suing because, “I just want them to wake up,” he told The Buffalo News.
The lawsuit alleges that McKinley Principal Crystal Boling-Barton has warned students during...
